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Re:U.S. Justice Dept Considering Apple Probe: Sources by snazz on Monday June 03, 2019 @04:43PM (#20088474)
The control over what iOS developers can do has been the source of a lot of contention recently. Facebook is Big Bad as we all know, but I agree that they’re not as much a monopoly.
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Re:U.S. Justice Dept Considering Apple Probe: Sources by treis on Monday June 03, 2019 @09:05PM (#20090756)
Duopoly isn't much better than a monopoly. Especially when the other half does basically the same anti-competitive behaviors.

Really, of all of these, Apple is seemingly the most blatant in their anti-competitive behaviors. Google and Facebook at least offer choice even if that choice is a somewhat of an illusion. Apple just flat out forbids competing with it in distributing iOS apps and vigorously guards its cut of subscription revenue.

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